A perspective on the control of mammalian fertilization by egg- activated ion channels in sperm: A tale of two channels

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 12-16

  Florman, Harvey M ^a   Arnoult, Christophe ^b   Kazam, Imrana G ^a   Li, Chongqing ^a   O'Toole, Christine M B ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION; CATION CHANNEL; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; GLYCOPROTEIN; ION CHANNEL;

ACROSOME REACTION; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; EXOCYTOSIS; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION;

ACROSOME; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; EGG PROTEINS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; OVUM; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031777483     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.1.12     Document Type: Short Survey

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